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Union encouraging employees

Representatives of the Culinary Union are urging employees to come forward to report incidences of sexual harassment and discrimination and support the investigations.

“We are deeply disturbed by these accusations against Steve Wynn and support a full and fair investigation regarding these allegations,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union, said in a statement last week.

“As the largest organization of women in Nevada, the Culinary Union’s history is one of challenging a discriminatory status quo and demanding equality. For 83 years, over 500,000 women have been protected by comprehensive contract language negotiated by the Culinary Union and rank-and-file majority-women members,” the statement added.

The Culinary also noted that contract negotiations for 50,000 workers on the Las VegasStrip and in downtown Las Vegas begin in February and that union members plan to use the opportunity to negotiate safety buttons for 14,000 guest room attendants, stronger sexual harassment and gender discrimination language, and equal wage increases for all workers.

“As a union of strong women who have never accepted sexual harassment and gender discrimination, we respect the women who come forward to change what should never have been,” the statement said.